They may have not had the Pink Pussycat Boutique back then, but prehistoric women did have sex toys, researchers say.
A sculpted and polished phallus recently found in a German cave has been identified as one of the earliest representations of a marital aid.
The 7.8-inch-long, 1.2-inch-wide stone object – said to be 28,000 years old – was buried in the Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm.
Its life size suggests it was used by women to achieve sexual satisfaction.
“It’s highly polished; it’s clearly recognizable,” professor Nicholas Conard of Tubingen University told the BBC.
The phallus will be displayed at an exhibition called “Ice Art: Clearly Male” at the museum of the prehistoric in Blaubeuren.